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Selected Bibliography on Native American Writers and Their Writings

PART 1: ORAL LITERATURE

BLACK ELK. (1863-1950):

E90 .B82A3 1932
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux as Told to John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow). New York: W. Morrow & Company, 1932.

E99 .O385 1953
The Sacred pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux. Norman, OK.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.

E99 .O38S36 1984
The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings given to John G. Neihardt. Lincoln, NE.: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

BLACK HAWK, SAUK CHIEF. (1767-1838):

Electronic Resource
Black Hawk's Autobiography. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

E83.83 .B635
Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak): An Autobiography. Urbana, IL.: University of Illinois Press, 1955.

Electronic Resources
Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

JOSEPH, NEZ PERCE CHIEF. (1840-1904):

CARY LIBRARY
An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs. Kirkwood, MO.: The Printery, 1973.

PART 2: WRITTEN LITERATURE

ALEXIE, SHERMAN, (1966-)

PN6014.G694 no54-55
Best of Young American Novelists. New York: Granta, 1996.

PS3551.L35774L66 1994
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994.

PS3551.L35774T46 2003
Ten Little Indians; Stories. New York: Grove Press, 2003.

PS3551.L35774T68 2000
The Toughest Indian in the World. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.

ALLEN, PAULA GUNN. (1939- ):

E98 .W8A44 1992
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions: With a New Preface. Boston, MA.: Beacon Press, 1992.

PS508 .I5S64 1989
Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing By Native American Women. Boston, MA.: Beacon Press, 1989.

PS153 .I52S8 1983
Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1983.

PS508 .I5V64 1994 v.1
Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994-.

PS3551 .L397W6 1994
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows. San Francisco, CA.: Aunt Lute Books, 1994.

BAXTER, PAULA A.:

REF. E98.J48B38 2000
Encyclopedia of Native American Jewelry: A Guide to History, People, and Terms. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2000.

BENSEN, ROBERT. (1947- ):

E98.C89C55 2001
Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

BLOOM, JOHN. (1962- ):

GV706.32.S75 2002
Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

E98.G2B56 2000
To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

BRANT, BETH. (1941- ):

PR 9199.3.B687M6 1985
Mohawk Trail. East Have, CT.: Firebrand Books, 1985.

BRAVE BIRD, MARY. (1953- ):

E99 .D1M425 1990
Lakota Woman. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

E99 .B8C763 1993
Ohitika Woman. New York: Grove Press, 1993.

BROWNER, TARA. (1960- ):

E98.P86B76 2002
Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

BRUCHAC, JOSEPH. (1942- ):

E99 .I7B85 1985
Iroquois Stories: Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Magic. Trumansburg, NY.: Crossing Press, 1985.

OVER E98.F6C12 1989
Keepers of the Earth. Golden, CO.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1989.

PS508 .P7L54 1984
The Light From Another Country: Poetry from American Prisons. Greenfield Center, NY.: Greenfield Review Press, 1984.

E98.F6B9 1991
Native American Stories. Golden, CO.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1991.

PS508 .I5N498 1989
New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing. Greenfield Center, NY.: Greenfield Review Press, 1989.

E78 .E2B78 1989
Return of the Sun: Native American Tales From the Northeast Woodlands. Freedom, CA.: Crossing Press, 1989.

PS591 .I55S66 1983
Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Greenfield Center, NY.: Greenfield Review Press, 1983.

PS508 .P787 1974
Words From The House of the Dead: Prison Writings From Soledad. Trumansburg, NY.: Crossing Press, 1974.

CAWTHORNE, NIGEL:

E98.A7C25 1997
The Art of Native North America. San Diego: Laurel Glen Publishers, 1997.

REF. GT2130.P38 1997
A Century of Shoes: Icons of Style in the 20th Century. Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1997.

CHAMPAGNE, DUANE.:

REF E77.C555 1994
Chronology of Native North American History, From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.

E98.S67C66 1999
Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues. Walnut Creek, CA.: AltaMira Press, 1999.

REF E76.2.N37 1994
Native America: Portrait of the Peoples. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1994.

REF E77.N378
The Native North American Almanac.( 4 vol. set). Multiculture in Print, 1997.

COOK-LYNN, ELIZABETH:

E93.C76 2001
Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice From Tatekeya's Earth. Urbana, ILL.: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

CURTIS, EDWARD S. (1868-1952):

OVER TR140.C82D38 1985
Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985.

OVER E77.5.C78 1981
Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race. New York: American Legacy Press, 1981.

ARCHIVES PS3535.Y352F58
Flute of the Gods. New York: F.A. Stokes Company, 1909.

OVER E77.5.C79 2004
Great Warriors. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2004.

RESD E89.C87 1997
Heart of the Circle: Photographs by Edward S. Curtis of Native American Women. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1997.

E77.C982 1996
Hidden Faces. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.

OVER E77.5.C8 1972
In a Sacred Manner We Live: Photographs of the North American Indian. New York: Weathervane Books, 1972.

PS3505.U85I5
In the Land of the Head-Hunters. (s.i): Tamarack Press, 1975.

ETC VH 2183
In the Land of the War Canoes. New York: Milestone Film & Video, 1992.

E78.W5C9 1975
Indian Days of the Long Ago. (s.i.): Tamarack Press, 1975.

OVER TR820.5.C766 1976
The Kwakiuti, 1910-1914: From the Estate of Edward S. Curtis; Collection of Randee and G. Ray Hawkins. Irvine, CA: Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, 1976.

OVER E77.5.C835 2001
The Master Prints. Sante Fe, NM.: Arena Editions, 2001.

RESD E77.5.C84 1993
Native Nations: First Americans As Seen By Edward S. Curtis. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

E77.C982 1997
The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios. New York: Taschen, 1997.

E77.5/V82 1991
North American Indians: A Selection of Photographs by Edward S. Curtis. New York: Aperture, 1991.

E78.G73C874 2001
The Plains Indian: Photographs of Edward S. Curtis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

E77.5.C83 1995
Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

OVER E77.5.C85 2000
Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

OVER TR653.C87 2000
Sites & Structures: The Architectural Photographs of Edward S. Curtis. San Francisco: Chronicle Books,2000.

E77.C982 1987
The Vanishing Race: Selections From Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian. Seattle: University of Washington press, 1987.

DELORIA, VINE. (1933- ):

KF8224 .C6O44 1983
American Indians, American Justice. Austin, TX.: University of Texas Press, 1983.

E93 .D35
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence. New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

E467.1 .C99O37
Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

BL2776 .D44 1973
God Is Red. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.

BL2776 .D44 1992
God is Red: A Native View of Religion. 2nd. edition. Golden, CO.: North American Press, 1992

E93 .D37
The Indian Affair. New York: Friendship Press, 1974.

E98 .F6D35 1995
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. New York: Scribners, 1995.

E184 .A1D33
We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

DORRIS, MICHAEL. (1945- ):

RG629 .F45D67 1989
The Broken Cord. New York: Harper & Row, 1989

PS3554.O695C56 1997
Cloud Chamber: A Novel. New York: Scribner, 1997.

PS3554 .O695C76 1991
The Crown of Columbus. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

OVER E77.5 .F37 1975
Native Americans: 500 Years After. New York: Crowell, 1975.

PS3554 .O695P37 1994
Paper Trail: Essays. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

PS3554 .O695W67 1993
Working Men: Stories. New York: H. Holt, 1993

PS3554 .O695Y4 1987
A Yellow Raft In Blue Water. New York: H.Holt, 1987

EASTMAN, CHARLES A. (1858-1939):

Electronic Resources
From the Deep Woods to Civilization. Scituate, MA.: Digital Scanning, 2001.

Electronic Resources
Indian Boyhood. Philadelphia, PA.: University of Pennsylvania Library, 1995.

E89 .E13 1991
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains. Lincoln, NE.: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Electronic Resources
Old Indian Days. Philadelphia, PA.: University of Pennsylvania Library, 1995.

Electronic Resources
Soul of the Indian. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, 2003.

ERDRICH, LOUISE. (1954- ):

PS3555.R42A8 1998
Antelope Wife: A Novel. New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998.

PS3555 .R42B4 1986
The Beet Queen: A Novel. New York: H. Holt, 1986.

PS3555 .R42B5 1994
The Bingo Palace. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

PS3555 .R42Z464 1995
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

PS3554 .O695C76 1991
The Crown of Columbus. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

PS3555.R42O75 2003
Four Souls. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

PS3555.R42L37 2001
Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

PS3555 .R42L6 1984
Love Medicine: A Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,1984.

PS3555.R42M37 2003
Master Butcher's Singing Club. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

PS3555.R42O75 2003
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

PS3555.R42T3 1996
Tales of Burning Love. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

PS3555 .R42T73 1988
Tracks: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.

FLETCHER, ALICE C. (1838-1923):

Electronic Resources
Indian Games and Dances With Native Songs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

E98.F6F6 1970
Indian Story and Song, From North America. New York: Johnson, 1970.

E99. O4F65 1972
The Omaha Tribe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972.

FRANTZ, KLAUS

E93.F7313 1999
Indian Reservations in the United States: Territory, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomic Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

FRAZIER, IAN.:

E99.O3F73 2000
On the Rez. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

GEAR, KATHLEEN O'NEAL:

PS3557.E19P193 1997
People of the Mist. New York: Forge, 1997.

GEIOGAMAH, HANAY. (1945- ):

PS3557 .E357N4
New Native American Drama: Three Plays. Norman, OK.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

HALE, JANET CAMPBELL. (1947- ):

E99 .S63H35 1993
Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter. New York: Random House, 1993.

HARJO, JOY

PS3558.A62423M36 2000
A Map To The Next World: Poetry and Tales. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

5 Day Collection
Joy Harjo (Videorecording): in Conversation with Greg Sarris. Santa Fe, NM.: Lannan Foundation, 1996.

PS508.I5R38 1998
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

5 Day Collection
Where Poems Com From (Videorecording). Los Angeles: Lannan Foundation, 1991.

PS3558.A62423W66 1996
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

HOGAN, LINDA. (1947- ):

5 Day Collection
Linda Hogan. (Videorecording). Los Angles, CA.: Lannan Foundation, 1995.

PS3558.O3472S58 1995
Solar Storms. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

PS647 .W6S76 1986
The Stories We Hold Secret: Tales of Women's Spiritual Development. Greenfield Center, NY.: Greenfield Review Press, 1986.

IVERSON, PETER.:

E77.I94 1998
We Are Still Here: American Indians int he Twentieth Century. Wheeling, IL.: Harlan Davidson, 1998.

JEMISON, G. PETER:

KF8228.I76T74 2000
Treaty of Canandaigua 1794: 200 Years of Treaty Relations Between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States. Santa Fe, NM.: Clear Light Publishers, 2000.

JOHANSEN, BRUCE E. (1950- ):

REF E89.J69 1997
The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People From Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

KF8204.E53 1998
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1998.

QC981.8.G56J64 2002
Global Warming Desk Reference. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

E99.M8J65 1993
Life and Death in Mohawk Country. Golden, CO.: Native American Press, 1993.

JOHNSON, TROY R.:

E98.P76C66 1999
Contemporary Native American Political Issues. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998.

JOHNSTON, BASIL. (1929- ):

Electronic Resources
History of the Ojebway Indians. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, 2003.

PM854 .Z95E5
Ojibway Heritage. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

JONES, PETER:

Electronic Resource
A Collection of Chippeway and English Hymns, for the Use of the Native Indians. Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania, 1997.

PN49.J66
Philosophy and the Novel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Electronic Resources
Sermons and Speeches of the Rev. Peter Jones, Alia Kah-Ke-Wa-Quon-A-By, The Converted Indian Chief. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, 2003.

JUDSON, KATHERINE BERRY:

E98.F6J89
Myths and Legends of British North America. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917.

Electronic Resources
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, 2003.

E78.G7J83 2000
Native American legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

KENNY, MAURICE. (1929- ):

PS3561 .E49T45 1992
Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant (1735-1795): Poems of War. Fredonia, NY.: White Pine Press, 1992.

PS508 .I5N498 1989
New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing. Greenfield Center, NY.: Greenfield Review Press, 1989.

KRECH, SHEPARD. (1944- ):

E98.P5K74 1999
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

REF. GF10.E63 2004
Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (vols. 1-3). New York: Routledge, 2004.

F187.T2S894
Praise the Bridge That Carries You Over: The Life of Joseph L. Sutton. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.

LaDUKE, WINONA.:

E98.L3L34 1999
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge, MA.: South End Press, 1999.

LA FLESCHE, FRANCIS. ( d. 1932):

E99.O4L165 1978
The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

E99.O4365 1972
The Omaha Tribe.(vols. 1&2) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972.

LOUIS, ADRIAN C.

PS3562.O82S58 1995
Skins: A Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.

MCNICKLE, DARCY. (1904-1977):

GN21 .L24M3
Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La Farge. Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 1971.

E77 .M176
The Indian Tribes of the United States: Ethnic and Cultural Survival. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.

E91 .M26 1973
Native American Tribalism: Indian Survivals and Renewals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

MEYER, CARTER JONES. (1957- ):

E98.P99S45 2001
Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

MOMADAY N. SCOTT. (1934- ):

PS3563 .O47H6
House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

PS3563 .O47H6 1977
House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

PS3563 .O47I5 1992
In The Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

PS3563.O47M66 1997
Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages. New York: St. Martin's, 1997

PS3563 .O47Z47 1987
The Names: A Memoir. Tucson, AZ.: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

E99 .K5M64
The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque, NM.: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.

PN2287 .R74A3
Autobiography. Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949.

PN2287.R74D3 1962
Will Rogers, A Biography. New York: D. McKay , 1962.

RESD Cassette 358
The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers, In His Own Voice. (sound recording). New York: Caedmon Records, 1970.

SEGAL, ELIZABETH A.:

E98.E2P74 1998
Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities. New York: Haworth press, 1998.

PS3569 .I44C4 1986
Ceremony. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

PS3569.I44Z888 2000
Conversations With Leslie Marmon Silko. Jackson; University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

PS3559.I44G37 1999
Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

PS3569 .I44S8 1981b
Storyteller. New York: Arcarde Publishing, 1981.

E59.P45S55 1997
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of t he Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ. (1942- ):

PS3569 .M5377C3
Canto For A Gypsy. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1972.

14 Day Tapes
December 6. Landmark Audiobooks, 2002.

PS3569 .M5377G6
Gorky Park. New York: Random House, 1981.

PS3569 .M5377P65 1989
Polar Star. New York: Random House, 1989.

PS3569.M5377R67 1996
Rose. New York: Random House, 1996.

STORM, HYEMEYOHSTS. (1935- ):

PS3569 .T653S4
Seven Arrows. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

SUTTON, IMRE. (1928- ):

E98.T77T78 2001
Trusteeship in Change: Toward Tribal Autonomy in Resource Management. Boulder, CO.: University Press of Colorado, 2001.

TALAYESVA, DON C. (1890-?):

E99 .H7T25
Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1971.

VIZENOR, GERALD R. (1934- ):

PS3572 .19 .W6
Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade. Minneapolis, MN.: University of Minnesota Press, 1978.

WALDMAN, CARL.:

OVER E77.W195 1985
Atlas of the North American Indian. New York: Facts on File, 1985.

REF. C76.2.W35 1999
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. New York: Facts on File, 1999.

WALTERS, ANNA LEE. (1946- ):

E98 .A7W32 1989
The Spirit of Native America: Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art. San Francisco, CA.: Chronicle Books, 1989.

E99 .O87W34 1992
Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing. Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books, 1992.

WELCH, JAMES. (1940- ):

PS3573 .E44D44 1987
The Death of Jim Loney. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

PS3573 .E44F66 1987
Fools Crow. New York: Penquin Books, 1987.

PS3573.E44H4 2000
Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2000

PS3573 .E44I5 1991
The Indian Lawyer. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

PS3573 .E44Z73 1986
James Welch. Lewiston, ID.: Confluence Press, 1986.

E83.876 .W38 1994
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

WHITEMAN, ROBERTA HILL:

PS3573.H4875S7 2001
Star Quilt: Poems. Duluth, MN.: Holy Cow!Press, 2001

WILSON, JAMES (1949-) :

E77.W54 1999
The Earth Shall Weep: A history of Native America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.

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